Gavin Heffernan

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Biography

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

AFI grad and Canadian filmmaker/screenwriter. Co-writer of Bryan Singer's psychological horror feature The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014). Other posts in the horror genre include Chillerama (2011) and Stephen King's One for the Road (2011). He is also known for his viral timelapse shorts, which were featured in The Rolling Stones' 2015 ZIP CODE stadium tour over "Moonlight Mile" and "Wild Horses." Repped by the Agency for the Performing Arts and Zero Gravity Management. Read more...Heffernan's experimental timelapses have been featured on Virgin America, BBC Earth, Bravo's first scripted show Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and many other press and TV outlets, including TIME Magazine, National Geographic, CBS News, and WIRED,among others. His shots have been used in Science Channel's Alien Encounters (2013) series, Travel Channel's Trip Flip (2012), and the celebrated LGBT documentary Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (2014).

Heffernan has also directed and produced many successful short and experimental films. Premiering at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival, his unconventional anti-war film Grand Wheel (2008) played more than forty festivals in over fifteen countries and was presented with the Silver Bear at the 37th Festival of Nations in Austria, Best Cinematography at the 2008 Canadian Filmmakers' Festival and Best Experimental Film at the 2009 Oxford Film Festival. Heffernan's subsequent collection of experimental HD Short Films titled Devolution (2010) won an Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Hollyshorts Film Festival in LA. The sequel, a sci-fi throwback about UFOs attacking earth, Devolution: Reckoning (2011) was also a popular draw, premiering at the Festival Nouveau Cinema in Montreal and playing over fifteen subsequent festivals.